Sunday, January 3, 2010

new dreamill PR, Last week of "Prep"

I ran for 70 mins on the dreadmill this morning to simulate ~7 miles of running. That is a new PR in terms of time spent @ once on a treadmill. It was boring but I went into the "zone"....i.e. zoned out.

Tomorrow I start my last week of "prep." It looks really similar to a base week, but is meant to kick me off of the off season habits and into a more structured week. Next Saturday I already have my first race of the season, the NYRR Fred Lebow Classic, 5 miler down in Central Park. I'm gonna use this race to simulate my race pace for the half marathon on Jan 24th. I'm aiming for a 8:30-8:45-ish pace. This reminds me of a VERY funny race pic of me from last year's edition of this race: (I'm saying "Get this over with!!!")

(The woman behind me says "Oh hai!")

2 comments:

  1. I was on the dreadmill yesterday for 70 minutes as well; pure torture.

    Good luck in the 5M. I've got an indoor tri at the end of the month, so that is my tune up race for the month.

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  2. 70 minutes on the treadmill! Boring! I did 30 this morning and it really sucked. I add in a short "sprint" every 5 minutes (bump from 6.2mph to 7mph for 1 minute) to keep it interesting!

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